alright, this is it. i cant seem to find the java program that i recently installed. by the way, thanks pergesu for the tutorials but i cant use them because i cant get the program runnin. if ne one knows whats wrong or what im not doing correctly, please help

Don't worry, I won't get aggravated. I'm not so sure I cover installing the JDK in my tutorial, I probably should. They've got instructions though. If you've already installed it, then most likely you have to set the PATH environment variable in order to do it easily. What OS are you running? I only know how to do it in Win2K, which is probably not what you're using... But anyway, you need to append the directory which stores all the executables (java, javac, javaw, jar) to that environment variable. So look for the directory you installed everything into, which is probably C:\j2sdk1.4.1_01. Then edit your path variable so it has C:\j2sdk1.4.1_01\bin at the very beginning. I have no clue how to do this in 98/ME/XP, so if someone else wouldn't mind telling him how, I'd appreciate it. I gotta run to school :\

ok im totally lost. i dont know what im doing. i set the path and everything but i cant get it to compile i cant find out whats wrong. pleeeeeeeease i need some serious help on java. i might delete the program and start from scratch and see if that might work.

Have you installed it? Have you run the setup program, and it created a c:\j2sdk1.4.1_01 directory? If you haven't already, do that. Then go ahead and set the path. If you still can't get it working, copy and post the error. But I don't think you've even installed it, so make sure you have first.